Call for Papers: Language and Super-diversity

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The conference provides a forum for researchers to explore the forms, processes, practices and effects of super-diversity and the multi-faceted challenge it poses to language study, calling forth a revision of some of its key tools – its theoretical apparata, methods of data gathering and analytic concepts.

Plenary speakers

Michael Silverstein (U. Chicago),

David Parkin (Oxford),

Christopher Stroud (U. Western Cape)

Sirpa Leppänen (U. Jyväskylä).

There will also be a round-table discussion on Language and Super-diversity, with Jan Blommaert (Tilburg), Ben Rampton (KCL), Karel Arnaut (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Jens Normann Jørgensen (U. Copenhagen), Robert Moore (Penn Graduate School of Education) and Cécile Vigouroux (Simon Fraser U.)

Call for papers

Proposals for posters, papers and thematic panels are invited on topics relevant to language and super-diversity. A non-exhaustive list of possible topics includes:

multilingualism

language and globalization

language crossing, switching, and mixing

contact-induced language variation and change

polylanguaging, translanguaging, metrolingualism

linguistic landscapes

new literacies

computer-mediated discourse

language assessment for the determination of origin and citizenship

language (education) policy

language socialization

narratives of cultural belonging and difference

Abstracts are to be submitted through the conference abstract management system (Update: link no longer active). Although the language of the conference is English, the use and visibility of other languages is encouraged (e.g., in handouts and slides). More information on preparing an abstract can be found here (Update: link no longer active).